If you have downloaded some video and it’s packed in multi-volume archive, you can play the file without unpacking. This is how you do it in Ubuntu. It should work fine on any linux distribution. You wil need “unrar” and “vlc” or any other video player. So, in Ubuntu, open a terminal and install these [...]
Archive for September 2007
Clean up Ubuntu!
Clean up Ubuntu! How to clean up your Ubuntu. 01. Getting rid of Residual Config packages In Synaptic Package Manger, there is a built-in feature that gets rid of old Residual Config packages. Residual Config packages are usually dependency packages that are left behind after you uninstall a package from your machine. To use this [...]
Rebuilding the font cache
If you install a new font in linux, you need to rebuild the fonts cache: sudo fc-cache -f -v
How-To create a MySQL database and set privileges to a user
MySQL is a widely spread SQL database management system mainly used on LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) projects. In order to be able to use a database, one needs to create: a new database, give access permission to the database server to a database user and finally grant all right to that specific database to this user. This [...]
HOWTO: Create a FTP server with user access (proftpd)
A. The GUI way (for beginners only) For those who are new to linux and don’t want to use a FTP server without GUI, or just for those who don’t use often their FTP server and wish to set it quickly without a high level of security, there is a GTK GUI for proftpd. Be [...]
Prevent X.Org from Starting in Ubuntu
Prevent X.Org from Starting in Ubuntu If you’ve got an Ubuntu machine that you initially installed with Ubuntu Desktop, but would like to run as a server, you can just disable the graphical environment from starting up in order to save resources. This is also useful for doing system maintenance from the command line that [...]
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